The North East Tarrant Texas Tea Party (NETTTP never told the IRS they were working on the Verify the Recall project. The group may have posted the nationwide appeals for data entry volunteers on their website, but the project was being driven by the two Wisconsin-based tea party organizations. Yet the IRS asked the NETTTP to tell them all they knew about the Verify the Recall project.

“There is no explaining this away,” Catherine Engelbrecht, President of True the Vote told RightWisconsin in an exclusive interview. “It is a reprehensible abuse of power by the IRS to ask one organization for information about the activities of a separate organization while holding their non-profit status hostage.”

Engelbrecht appeared on the Mike Huckabee show this weekend and discussed the problems, including how other federal agencies including OSHA and ATF piled on with investigations and inspections:

until the people are starving. 1 of about 12 useful things I learned in college. After food prices reach a certain amount of per capita income the chances of violent revolution explode.

But in a more serious note the conservative movement now needs to move offline and to face to face. People have no idea and are completely sheltered by msm & pc. That’s how it’s going to stay unless people talk face to face and feel the concern and compassion.

Never, ever lose sight of the fact the the IRS scandal came out as the result of a planted question to an IRS official. The White House outed itself on this to distract from the negligent homicides in Libya.

Don’t you find it offensive that the government won’t profile those travelers most likely to commit an act of terrorism? Or a government that will allow anyone to not only enter our country illegally, but enthusiastically invites them in, then prohibits states from profiling them? Yet this same government will not hesitate to profile patriotic Americans and groups who scrupulously follow the rules, trying to help make this a better country.

A secondary irksome thought is the likelihood that at least a couple congressional GOP-ers have quietly discussed among themselves whether they really want to eradicate this sort of abuse of power because they could really make use of it when the GOP gets back in the White House.

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Got a liberal friend, coworker or family member who doesn’t see the horrible nature of these abuses and laughs at your concerns? Ask them if they’d like the Republicans to be able to do this when they get in.